Lend me your ears, baseball fans - your hometown team is about to make history.It's definitely not in the way most people would find anything to cheer about, but with the Tigers, I'm sure you've learned to take what you can get.Yes, I'm talking about the losingest season in modern baseball history.
The swagger is gone and the expectations went with it.So is his favorite target and his pristine image.As well as the complete coaching staff, his two top running backs and his whole comfort zone.The passing records seem a forgone conclusion, but for MSU quarterback Jeff Smoker, there is so much more to prove.What's real is the nervous twitch of his eye and a no-name receiving corps that could easily let him down.As Smoker addressed reporters for the second time since being reinstated to the football team, he tried to emphasize that he was concentrating only on this week's game.When the Spartans take the field against Western Michigan at 3:40 p.m.
The budget crunch impacting nearly all university departments this fall is forcing the MSU Department of Police and Public Safety to condense its campus and community outreach programs. Police officials, though, believe the change will help maximize attendance and the effectiveness of programs. The department offers programs each year to campus groups, community organizations and dormitory floors on such topics as alcohol responsibility and personal safety.
Screwball comedies have long disappeared, along with pencil-thin mustaches and families gathered around a radio for home entertainment. Today's movie-going public should make an effort to watch these classics.
With his sandals off and his backpack propped like a pillow under his head near the Red Cedar River Monday evening, Dan Peltier risked a West Nile infection.
Patcharaporn "Nok" Buranakul's flight back to Michigan was easier than her flight home to Thailand. Buranakul, a teaching as a second language graduate student, boarded her plane home to Bangkok in May during the height of the SARS epidemic. Armed with a face mask, she returned to a now quiet city.
Welcome receptions for students of color are taking place this week. Everyone is encouraged to attend.
I saw an interesting cartoon the other day that had a soldier facing a large group of angry Iraqis. Both he and the group were armed, and the soldier was saying to himself, "Well, I've found the weapons of mass destruction!" It really got me thinking about our single-minded focus on large-scale bombs and biological devices.
You've heard the horror stories. Normal teenagers - good citizens from regular, everyday towns - move away to college and pack on pound after pound until they get so big, they are no longer able to fit onto their twin extra-long sized bed
Three of the four MSU students featured in the October issue of Playboy's "Girls of the Big Ten" edition spent today autographing copies of the issue today at Community Newscenters in Frandor Shopping Center and Big Ten Party Stores East, 1108 E.
The crowd was anxiously buzzing with noise and energy as it waited for the opening of The MSU Department of Theatre's Open House Monday night in the Arena Theater.
Listening to Neil Young & Crazy Horse's "Greendale" is a unique experience in that it does something many modern, commercialized CDs cannot - it transports the listeners to the musician's world and makes them develop an affinity for the work. Though long-winded at times, listening to "Greendale" is essentially like watching a good movie: detailed, with complex plots, characters and supporting roles. Most of the tracks fly by, even though six of the songs are longer than 7 minutes, with three coming in at a whopping 10-plus minutes.
The MSU student who said she was sexually assaulted in East Lansing last month has pleaded guilty to filing a false police report.Jenna King, 19, could face a maximum penalty of 93 days in jail and $500 in fines when she is sentenced on Sept.
East Lansing residents who live miles from downtown will soon be able to enjoy the services of a Laundromat, grocery store and many other businesses just around the corner. The Chandler Crossing Retail Center, 16800 S.
ASMSU is busy making new plans for the fall semester, despite a debilitating computer virus. The viruses affected computers campus-wide and ASMSU's weren't safe from the worm."All of our computers have been hit," Student Assembly Chairperson Missy Kushlak said.
Tyrell Dortch has seen plenty of adversity in the past two seasons, but MSU football head coach John L.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture presented MSU Extension specialist Mark Hansen with the Honor Award in Washington, D.C.. Hansen is the chairperson of the Extension Disaster Education Network, which also received an award in the Heroism and Emergency Response category.
Ah, the first day of classes.Day one means meeting your professors for the first time and becoming quickly acquainted with the swapping-and-dropping-classes system.Day one means laughing at the inexperienced in-line skaters who have yet to discover how to use their brakes yet refuse to wear pads.The first day at MSU causes fear for your life as sidewalk-demanding bicyclists peddle through the campus or rapidly accelerating drivers rip around corners with no regard.
More than 800 people crammed into the Kellogg Center on Sunday to commemorate the 2003 entering class of the College of Human Medicine for their white coat ceremony.The ceremony acknowledges the beginning of a medical student's journey into the professional world.Kenni Allen, a first-year medical student, said the event signifies an important moment in a medical students' professional progress."It's something you work at for a long time, and this is a way of showing you finally made it," Allen said.